Lucie: Hello! Hey everyone, welcome into our 2-bedroom 2-bathroom apartment, in New
York City. This is now the second video we're showing you of our apartment. The
first video was shot back in August when we first moved in, and it's a full empty
apartment tour, so there's absolutely nothing in here. Now, it's a lot more
filled up, and, I apologize that the audio of this video is still going to be
echoey... My microphone did not want to work, so I'm recording audio straight to
camera. And now I want to show you what it looks like fully decorated in here,
and how the place looks since we furnished it. First and foremost, this
right here is peel-and-stick wallpaper from Simple Shapes. I'll put the link
below in the description box for this exact wallpaper. You will see three walls
of wallpaper around the apartment they're all peel-and-stick. This is a
rental apartment unit, so we couldn't actually put wallpaper on, and this is
pretty much just a decal... so, when we move out and we peel this off there will be
no damage done to the walls. This is one of my
favorites. It's just a modern, watercolor brush stroke, geometric shape wallpaper...
and our plan is ultimately to put some shoe cabinets drilled into the wall down
here, and potentially a mirror, just so that we can check ourselves on the way in and
on the way out. Always love checking. And as you will
see, there's a lot of graphic design and a lot of black and white elements in
here, so we thought this was the perfect design just for the entryway. The closets
are all still the same as the empty apartment tour video, but of course now
they're filled, so let me just give you a look at this coat closet right here.
Coats, coats, coats, and more coats. We really need to go through our coats. We
have too many. And there's some stuff shoved up top, it's just not pretty right now.
But, if you remember correctly, this apartment does have double height
storage, so there is another storage closet right above that closet and we do
keep a lot of seasonal items up there. If we now enter this way into
this beautiful little corner area, I'll show you my favorite shelves. These shelves are
ladder shelves from CB2. They're 96 inches tall. All the items you're seeing on
the shelves are just a few of our favorite things. A lot of these items
came from our wedding registry, and my mom who is an interior designer helped us
decorate these shelves and arrange them the way you're seeing them here. There
are also some really special items to us including this gold stand, of which we
have another one on the other side... and these were actually the gold risers that
were on the middle of our wedding cake so I'll pop a photo up here so you can
see what our wedding cake looked like... and we got to take the risers home, and now
they are a decor piece on the shelf. On the side of this corner we keep a
couple of our candles and plants... We have a photo from our wedding... And then right
tucked under this window is a desk. This desk is Michael's desk because I do
technically have an office in the second bedroom, but both of us use this desk. We
try to keep it very clean and minimal because it's the first thing someone
sees when they walk into the apartment, so if it's messy... it doesn't look good
for us. We have this wheely spinny chair that we took from our other
apartment, and then we just put this little ottoman poof next to the desk,
because often two of us want to sit here at once. From this little corner, we can
head on this way to the second bedroom... This is the hallway leading down to the
second bedroom. This is our guest bathroom. It was empty when you saw it
before. Now it's pretty much still empty, except for the fact that--this lighting
is probably horrible--and we have a soap dispenser, we have some lotion for our
guests, we put a couple of towels up on the towel rack... and in the bottom drawer,
here you will see a lot of toilet paper made from recycled paper. Woah. We just
got a new supply... so it's fresh. This closet right here I believe was also
empty when we first shot in here, but now it is filled with a lot of our cleaning
supplies, as well as all of our extra beauty products and items that we need
to refill every so often. I'll give you a glimpse inside, but I'm just
not sure how clean it is. All right, not bad... not bad. As you can see, we've got
paper towels up top, a couple of games tucked off to the side, cleaning supplies,
cleaning supplies... Moving down this hallway into the second bedroom / office...
So, I actually did an entire video about this room. It's on my channel. I'll put a
link somewhere up here so that you can watch that now... This is the space. I'm
really not going to get too into it because it's all mentioned in that other
video... but what I did in this room is, on one side--the side I'm sitting on--I put
this lavender couch from Urban Outfitters, and another wall of wallpaper
behind me... this pink and orange wallpaper is from Guild and Grace... I'll put the
link down below. And then many of the items you're seeing on the wall are from
Etsy. So this was kind of a full collaboration with Etsy and some of
their artists and sellers, but also, I did put a couple of my mom's paintings on
the wall, and a couple of other things that I found that I loved. My goal in
this room was to kind of have two video sets. So, when the camera is facing me
this way, we've got this pink and orange wall... but if the camera spins around to
this side, we've got my full desk. And this is a ladder desk from West Elm. It's
drilled into the wall, and then I filled up the shelves with some more of my
favorite things. If you remember correctly, when we came into this room
for the empty apartment tour video, I did explain what I wanted to do with this
room and I said I want to put a futon couch on this side with some fun
wallpaper on the wall... a desk on this side... and if I do say so myself,
that is exactly what I did. So I think that this room came out looking pretty
much exactly how I wanted it to look. We have those built in bookshelves over on
the back side of the room, and we organized them by color, so the books are
black, then white, then blue, then orange. It looks super organized and pretty in here.
I did put those plants that I said I would put along the back windowsill... And
then there is a corner in this room for my studio lights so that I can
always keep them assembled and I can shoot on a moment's notice. And that is
the office. It's not even worth showing you the closet space in here, because
it's just so filled up with stuff... But I guess I'll give you a little peek... Storage,
storage, storage, storage. Not that fun. And up top, once again, is another
storage space that we use for all of our suitcases, and that is totally filled up
because Michael and I each got three new suitcases from our wedding registry. So
we are just ready to travel. Come on this way back into the entryway. If you
remember correctly from the empty apartment tour, video this is one of my
favorite spots in the entire apartment. The apartment is shaped like a triangle,
so from down here you get a long view all the way past the kitchen into the
living room. I love when someone's sitting at this desk and then someone's
sitting at the tip of the living room, you can actually see each other and talk
to each other. And as you can see, there are just a lot of empty walls in this
apartment... So, we did keep this one wall very empty and white because we didn't
want to put stuff everywhere... but we did want to put some stuff somewhere. So, on
this wall right here, this is an original painting from my mom... Debbie Fink.
She doesn't sell these paintings, but I do get a lot of requests from
people asking where they can buy her paintings... so comment below if you think
I should convince my mom to start a shop. But I think this is so beautiful. It just
adds a pop of life, bright colors, and abstract art to this entryway. And now we
can go into the kitchen. This is the kitchen. It's one of my favorite spots in
the entire apartment. We didn't have this cart when we first filmed the empty
apartment tour, but this is just a pop-up cutting board on wheels. I got it from
QVC. I bought it particularly so that I could stand like this with the window
light on my face, and film videos in the kitchen... but it's also really useful when
we're not filming videos. This is actually my dream kitchen because it's
shiny, it's bright, it's reflective... When the sun is
over there, you can see the sun in the cabinets... And on top of that all, we have
organized the *BEEP* out of this place. So we worked with Horderly to do an entire
kitchen organization... I'll just give you a glimpse into one of the cabinets to
show you how great it is... Oh yeah. I mean, everything is labeled... plates and bowls,
serving, coconut bowls... and we really have kept this place as clean as it was in
that first video. In the near future I'm going to be working on a full fridge
organization video... This right here is the fridge... One thing I mentioned in the
empty apartment tour video that I love, is that the fridge and the dishwasher
are "hidden" appliances in this apartment, so they just look like cabinets. But
they're not cabinets. And you're also seeing a couple of new appliances on the
shelves that we got from our wedding registry, including this rose gold
Vitamix, and the white Smeg which I use for my cookies every single night... The
only thing that's changed since the first video is that it's now filled up
with all of our stuff. There is still the double, triple height in here... so we do
have to take our step stool every time we want to get something that we need
that's stored up top... But we did organize efficiently, such that everything we use
everyday is low down and easily accessible. From here we can go into the
bedroom. So on the way to the bedroom, we passed the walk-in closet right here...
which was completely empty when you first saw it, and now we've filled it up
with clothes, and towels, and storage... I love that we have a walk-in closet. Even
still, we felt like we didn't have enough space in the apartment to put clothing,
and shoes, and everything like that... so we do have some closets that we built up in
the bedroom. So let me show you that. Welcome to our bedroom! So this is what we've
done with the space. We decided to put the bed facing the opposite wall, so our
heads are up against the window. I initially wanted to put the bed right
here, but I thought it wouldn't be great to walk into the room and be walking
into the bed, and to have to go around it to get to the
bathroom. So we decided to keep this empty walkway to get straight to the
bathroom, and the bed's over here. We have two nightstands, one on either side of
the bed. On this side, right to the left when we walk in, is the West Elm dresser
that we brought from our other apartment. I store one of my yoga mats beneath it,
and it's just tucked away secretly... We have a work of art on there, a photo from
our wedding, a lamp... And then what you're seeing all the way on the back side of
the wall are these two big IKEA closets that are assembled and attached to one
another. There's two sides, and it's a sliding door, so you just slide it over
and you've got Michael's on the left, and Lucie's on the right. I had a smaller
version of this closet in our previous apartment, and I loved it
and I loved the layout... so we just got two side by side and upgraded the size,
because we felt like we needed more space. Then on the right side, set a
little bit back but the exact same height, we put a full shoe closet. One
issue we're always having is where to store our shoes... So we put the shoe
closet up. We think it's going to be really helpful. Hopefully once we
assemble those shoe cabinets up in the entryway, we'll have a little bit more
space and we can maybe use these cabinets for something other than shoes...
But right now it's just shoes. We've got this carpet on the floor... It was from
Rugs USA... Very affordable and just adds a nice pop of blue to the space... I think we
did sort of go with a blue theme for the bedroom... So the carpet is blue,
there's touches of blue in the blanket on the bed, and the pillow on the bed, the
artwork and the lamp... and then, of course, we've set up this Samsung Frame TV with
a blue piece of artwork on it. This is one of my favorite features of the room.
This frame TV came recommended to me by a friend who... I was complaining to her
about how I hate when TVs are in the bedroom
and they're just like the centerpiece of the room... She suggested that I try out
the Frame TV which is a TV when it's on, but artwork when it's off. And it
actually has this frame around the edge that is very easy to snap on. I could
show you... It comes off quite easily, and then snaps right on... And it makes the TV
look like it's a picture frame in the bedroom. But it is amazing to walk into
the bedroom and to just feel like you have artwork displayed on the wall, but
then the moment you lie down to go to sleep, you've got amazing quality
television in front of you. Into the master bathroom. Pretty much the exact
same as it was before, except for now it's all filled up with our stuff. We've
got this whole cabinet of our beauty products and all the supplies we use. We
keep a lot of stuff in these drawers and go into them frequently... And then we've
got our shower, which has just been a dream, honestly, having a glass shower
with a sliding door and a spot for our shampoos and conditioners... It's a game
changer, and it has a rain showerhead, so... Loved it. I guess I'll just get in again.
Oh! It's wet! Michael just showered. I'm not gonna do that.
I'm out. So now, why don't we go from here, to the living room? This is our living
room. Every single thing that you're seeing in this living room is from All
Modern, with the exception of this couch. The couch was in storage. We had it at
another spot of ours. I believe it's from West Elm... but literally everything else
in here was an All Modern purchase. From the TV stand, to the kitchen table and
the chairs... the buffet behind the kitchen table... the carpet on the ground, which is
so soft and fuzzy... the two ottomans, the coffee table, the console table, the lamps
that you're seeing around the space... the pillows on the couch,
the circular mirror, and even the wallpaper on the walls. Once again, this
was peel-and-stick wallpaper, so this will not damage
the walls at all. One thing I will say is that for all three walls of wallpaper in
this apartment, Michael and I didn't want to attempt to put it on ourselves. Even
though, theoretically, it should be kind of easy because you don't need any
special liquid like you might need for regular wallpaper... we were still really
concerned that we wouldn't be able to line it up properly and get it straight,
so working with a professional who knows how to do wallpaper was a game changer. And
somebody basically came to our apartment to put up the three walls of wallpaper,
and it took two days... So I'm truly grateful we didn't attempt it ourselves.
In my first video in this space, it was obviously completely empty, so we had to
sort of map out the best arrangement for the furniture in here... It is a little bit
of a weird shape, but we wanted to put the kitchen table at the tip because the
view out that window is the best view in the apartment, so when guests come over
for dinner we want to seat them there. And our original idea was to put the
couch kind of floating out into the living room, but we really didn't want to
shut the space off and turn it into two spaces... so we put the couch in this L
arrangement so that it's fully open to the living room. The TV is on the other
side, and it is sort of blocking some of the windows, because it is a very big TV...
But we figured there's enough natural light in here that if one little segment of
the window is blocked, that's okay. But I just love All Modern because they have
so many different styles, and I specifically was able to sit on their
website, pick out pieces, take screenshots of them and put them side-by-side, and
basically design my living room online before making the purchases. That's what
you're seeing here. I hope you love it as much as we do. This painting on the wall
is another one of my mom's paintings, and that little painting over there is
also one of hers, too... I love using my mom's artwork in this
apartment, not only because it gives it such a personal touch, but as someone who
is filming video content all the time for companies and brands, it's actually
amazing to have my mom's artwork hanging up so she can always sign a
materials release if it winds up in the back of a video. *car horn* That is what I deal
with. We are kind of in a busy area, so there's a lot of honking... but we love it
so much. This is one of our favorite spots in the city, and I'm so grateful
that were moved in, and it's furnished... and we're ready to live. Comment
below and let me know what other videos you want to see from me, and I'll see you
next time, right here on my YouTube channel. By the way, thank you for 150,000
subscribers, I love all of you so much. And I just discovered that humans have
on average a hundred thousand hairs on their head, and I think it's really cool
that I have more YouTube subscribers than hairs on my head. How fun is that?
Okay. See you next time, bye!